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Abstract The early diagnosis of leprosy remains challenging in low-endemic regions. However, the implementation of clinical pathways (CPs) to improve diagnostic accuracy and understand patterns of misdiagnosis and delaye...

Dedicator of cytokinesis 8 (DOCK8) deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive combined immunodeficiency marked by severe atopy, recurrent viral and bacterial infections, high immunoglobulin E, eosinophilia, and lymphopenia...

ABSTRACT Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae and M. lepromatosis. Brazil consistently ranks among the countries with the highest number of leprosy cases. Data from our group showed that...

By the late nineteenth century an international controversy arose referred to the probable existence of certain diseases such as leprosy, syphilis and lupus in pre-Columbian America. Led by the American physician Albert ...

Background/Aim: Hard palate fistulas are due to pathologies such as noma, syphilitic gom, leprosy, leishmaniasis, radiotherapy, removal of cysts or tumors of the sinus or palate, trauma or tooth attraction. Symptoms of p...

They are not new in Literature; they belong to universal and immemorial experience. The pandemic occupies a significant place in literary texts. Writers have used it to carefully depict illness, death, the inescapable co...

Abstract Background Most households in developing countries like India are not able to afford to get the services of efficient energy for cooking and lighting. Therefore, they rely mostly on solid fuels (firewood, dung c...

Introduction: Thalidomide causes congenital defects in children, such as limb reduction defects. Currently, it is used for a few indications; in Brazil, where leprosy is endemic, thalidomide is used for the treatment of ...

Clonidine, an α2 adrenoreceptor agonist, induces dose dependent catalepsy in mice, which releases histamine from mast cells which is responsible for different asthmatic conditions. Ricinus communis Linn (Euphorbiaceae) ...